How-To Geek on MSN

VBA is dying, and Microsoft is building Excel's future without it

Cloud collaboration, macro security, and new tools like Office Scripts, Power Query, and Python are pushing VBA to the ...
Macworld

Office 2011: the macro is back

For years, Excel 2008 has been teasing me: Every time I launched the app, I’d see that menu item, mocking me, tempting me to click. “Go ahead,” it would whisper, “You know you want to. This time it’ll ...
The Verge

Microsoft rolls back blocking Office VBA macros by default

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 ...
Android Police

Excel: What are macros and what do they do

Alan is a technology author based in Nova Scotia, Canada. A computer enthusiast since his youth, Alan stays current on what is new and what is next. With over 30 years of experience in computer, video ...
Redmond Magazine

Excel Subscriptions Getting XLM Macro Blocking by Default

Microsoft is starting to enable the restriction of Excel 4.0 macros (XLM) by default for users of Excel in subscriptions, starting with Excel build 16.0.14427.20000 and newer releases, according to a ...
Ars Technica

The future of Microsoft’s languages: C# to be powerful, Visual Basic friendly

Since their introduction in 2002, Microsoft’s pair of .NET programming languages, C# and Visual Basic.NET, have been close siblings. Although they look very different—one uses C-style braces, brackets ...